The heartbreaker
0.5252
points from the title
Came within 0.5252 points of the Grand Championship at Smoke, Wind & Fire (2022-07-23).
Half Cocked BBQ
At a glance (everything the results say about this team, in numbers)
Rating
1518
peak 1518 · rated over 2 contests ⓘ
Contests
2
in the data
First seen
2022-07-23
latest 2022-09-03
Grand champs
0
1 reserve
Category wins
1
2 podiums
Overall top-10s
2
of 2 contests
Avg finish
top 16%
overall standings
Perfect 180s
0
Walk rate
100%
contests with a top-10 call
Top-10 streak
2
and counting
Strongest meat
Chicken
avg 164.01 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.39)
Road miles
116
mi across 2 mapped stops · furthest 116 mi
Backyard avg
321.40 / 360
2 Backyard contests · 0 GCs
This team cooks the Backyard series — its own boards, records and Team of the Year are here.
Storylines (2 found in this team's record)
Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
Announced themselves early
2nd
at their very first contest
Finished 2 of 20 at their very first tracked contest, Smoke, Wind & Fire (2022-07-23).
- 2022-07-23
- 20-team field
Teams like this (closest power rating)
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Half Cocked BBQ has 2 rated contests — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 88 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
#2561 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 20%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head#2556 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1526
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2019, 3 years before Half Cocked BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2557 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1520
No shared contest yet.
They were already cooking in 2016, 6 years before Half Cocked BBQ's first contest.
⚔ Head-to-head#2529 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1532
No shared contest yet.
Level with Half Cocked BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-head#2558 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 0%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before Half Cocked BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-head#2542 of the rated field
- Contests
- 5
- GCs
- 0
- Top-10s
- 40%
- Peak
- 1518
No shared contest yet.
Their last contest in the data was back in 2015, 7 years before Half Cocked BBQ's most recent — their rating stopped moving when they stopped cooking.
⚔ Head-to-headBy meat
| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 166.3088 | 161.7028 | 164.01 | top 12% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 161.7144 | 153.0744 | 157.39 | top 16% |
| Pork | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
| Brisket | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
The story so far (13 numbers that describe this team)
On the trail
0.1 yrs
2022-07-23 → 2022-09-03
Busiest season
2022
2 contests
Cooks most in
AB
1 of 2 contests
Contests visited
2
0 of them cooked more than once
Most-entered meat
Chicken
2 entries · 1 win · 2 calls
Strongest meat
Chicken
averages 164.01 · weakest Pork Ribs (157.39)
Walk rate
100%
a top-10 call in 2 of 2 contests
Overall top-10 rate
100%
2 of 2 contests
Best top-10 run
2
straight contests — and still running
Backyard average
321.40
out of 360 · 2 contests · 0 GCs
Opponents faced
53
49–16 across every shared overall standing
Road miles
116
2 mapped stops · furthest 116 mi
Power rating
1518
peak 1518 · #null of 6,413 rated
Milestones (the firsts, the round numbers and the personal bests)
- 2022
- First tracked contest Smoke, Wind & Fire
- First call Smoke, Wind & Fire
- First category win (Chicken) Smoke, Wind & Fire
- First overall top-10 Smoke, Wind & Fire
- First overall podium Smoke, Wind & Fire
- First Reserve Championship Smoke, Wind & Fire
- First overall past 90% of a perfect score328.0232 Smoke, Wind & Fire
- Career-best overall score328.0232 Smoke, Wind & Fire
- Career-best single call (Chicken)166.3088 Smoke, Wind & Fire
- Most recent contest Barbeque on the Bow
Category scores over time
Overall finish over time (top-% of field, lower is better)
Where they finish (overall)
Best vs average (by meat)
How entries end (by meat)
Season by season
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 100% | top 16% | 91.1% | 89.3% |
Contest history (click a row for the event, a column to sort)
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-09-03 | Barbeque on the Bow Calgary, AB | 8 / 36 (314.7772) | 7 (161.7028) | 6 (153.0744) | — | — |
| 2022-07-23 | Smoke, Wind & Fire Lethbridge, T1J4R3 | 2 / 20 (328.0232) | 1 (166.3088) | 3 (161.7144) | — | — |
Career map (orange GC · green top-10 · grey the rest — tap a pin)
Team of the Year standings (rank per category by season — year links to the full board on kcbs.us)
| Year | Series | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 ↗ | Backyard | — | #236 (138 pts) | #233 (148 pts) | — | — |